Portsmouth vs Millwall Prediction & Betting Tips

Recent form: goals at both ends

Millwall's league form has been genuinely up and down. There's a 4-0 win over Bolton and a 3-0 away success at Bristol City in there, but also a 0-3 home defeat to Wrexham and a 1-5 loss at Southampton. Their last two league games have both finished 2-2, at home to West Ham and away at Middlesbrough.

Portsmouth: 20 completed matches; Millwall: 20 completed matches.

Portsmouth

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

35% 7 / 20

Scored

24

Conceded

28

Difference

-4

Millwall

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

40% 8 / 20

Scored

24

Conceded

25

Difference

-1

Portsmouth's form is similarly patchy. They've drawn their last two league outings, 2-2 with Blackburn and 0-0 at Charlton, sandwiched between a win over Cardiff and defeats to Derby and Bristol City. Neither team has strung together a settled run lately.

Both sides look capable of either a big scoreline or a quiet one on any given week.

Comparative Team Statistics: Portsmouth vs Millwall

Head-to-head: no clear pattern

The recent meetings between these two haven't settled into any obvious trend. Portsmouth won 3-1 away at Millwall back in February, but Millwall had won 3-1 away at Portsmouth the previous November. Go back further and the results keep swapping direction, home and away.

Older meetings from 2011, 2012 and 2021 are on record too, but they're a long way removed from either squad as they stand now, so they don't tell us much about this version of the fixture.

The last two meetings were both won by the away side, which is at least worth noting.

Where they sit

Millwall are 11th with 11 points from eight games, having won three, drawn two and lost three, scoring 15 and conceding 15. Portsmouth are down in 19th on the numbers we have, with eight points from seven matches, two wins, two draws and three losses, and only nine goals scored so far.

That's a meaningful gap in the table, though it's still early days for both clubs this season.

Millwall's main threat

The player data available here is all about Millwall. L. Dykes has scored four goals in his last eight appearances, clearly their standout source of goals in this sample. Behind him, C. Neghli and Jenson Metcalfe have each set up two.

Millwall:

Best scorers:

L. Dykes - 4

Best assist providers:

C. Neghli - 2

Jenson Metcalfe - 2

Penalty cards:

Jenson Metcalfe x 1 x 3

Metcalfe is worth flagging for a different reason too, picking up a red card and three yellows across those same eight games. We don't have equivalent player information for Portsmouth here, so there's no direct comparison to make on that side.

How this one could play out

Portsmouth are lower in the table and have scored fewer goals than Millwall this season, and their home form in this sample hasn't been convincing either, with as many losses as wins. Millwall carry more attacking threat through Dykes, but their away form has included some heavy defeats alongside the good results.

The head-to-head history doesn't lean one way, and recent meetings have actually gone the away team's way twice running. Put together, this has the look of a game that could tip either direction depending on which version of each side turns up.